Word: commitments
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True, Christian theology is occasionally tarnished by vile anti-Semitism, but then again, the Hebrew bible advises atrocious punishments for women who grab men's genitals and even commands Jews to commit genocide against the Amalekites. We should no more revile the apostles than the prophets. For Dershowitz, who sees everything through the lens of his paranoia, any whiff of anti-Semitism disqualifies all manner of good deeds...
...enough incentives to conserve fuel. What is needed, says Gus Speth, president of the World Resources Institute, is an initiative like the one adopted by the European Community, which calls for member countries to stabilize their CO2 emissions at 1990 levels. So far, the Bush Administration has refused to commit itself to any such goal. In fact, in the energy plan put forward by the White House in February, conservation was overshadowed by calls for increased energy production...
...wall only a few feet in front of his desk is an aphorism, the source of which Gates has forgotten. "The easiest way to achieve complete strategic surprise," it reads, "is to commit an act that makes no sense or is even self-destructive." Gates says he finds this a useful admonition when trying to understand the Saddam Husseins of the world. He hopes to take it with him when he returns...
...Memorial Day jump on the competition and galloped to a $70 million gross; Total Recall, the first brawnbuster released last June, beat out its beefy competition. So an early start is helpful. This Memorial Day weekend, Hudson Hawk, with Bruce Willis as a reformed thief forced to commit one last heist, will try to shoulder out Backdraft, director Ron Howard's fireman-buddy epic starring Kurt Russell and Robert De Niro. Maybe those two films will duke it out all summer. Or maybe they will cream each other and leave space for late May's gal-buddy movie, Thelma...
...involved. Another agent, in an internal IRS memorandum, spoke hopefully of the "ultimate disintegration" of the church. A small but helpful beacon shone last June when a federal appeals court ruled that two cassette tapes featuring conversations between church officials and their lawyers are evidence of a plan to commit "future frauds" against...